Good news or bad news?

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Dear Diary,

Well as I mentioned in my post yesterday, I was hoping to have some good news to report today. I do, sort of.
Colin was in Dublin this morning for an interview at the American Embassy to get a 6 month business visa. He got it BUT since he was in the States for 3 months already they wouldn't issue it with a specific expiry date. That will be determined the next time we cross the border.
It's not really what we wanted. We wanted the full 6 months and get back to a normal family life, some permanence in one location TOGETHER, just the three of us.
We think they'll issue the visa for no more than three months as this visa is good for 6 months and we've used up 3 months but we won't know until then.
It will take another 5 business days for Colin to get his passport with the visa back to him, then he'll fly back to Canada for Isla and myself and then we're thinking about driving to Denver. It's a 24 hour trip, without breaks, so it would take us several days especially since we need to take the cats with us as well. We have alot of stuff to bring, ie. winter coats, cribs, bedding, etc... We can't bring all our stuff that we had shipped over from N. Ireland even though that would be nice but we're hopeful some time within the next year we'll be able to do that.
After 6 months of living in limbo, not really knowing what we're doing and "no fixed address", I guess this is a start. Please pray that in April 2009 we will be issued a permanent visa.
'Til next time,
Heather, Colin & Isla